Bed-seat



I. JAKLICH.

BED SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18. 1918.

1,305,368. PatentedJune 3, 1919.

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IVAN JA KLICH, OF GARY, INDIANA.

BED-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1919.

Application filed November 18, 1918. Serial No. 263,075.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IVAN JAKLICH, a sub: ject of the Kingdom of Croatia, a part of Austria-Hungary, having declared my in-. tention to become a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Gary, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bed-Seats, of which the following is specification.

It is well understood that it is injurious to the springs, mattress, and other compressible parts of the equipment of an ordinary bed for a person to sit upon the edge thereof, as for instance while dressing or while talking to another person lying upon the bed, as in the case of illness. The object of this invention is to provide a seat or shelf which may be detachably applied to an end or side rail of a bed, and swung, at the will of the operator, between two different positions; in one of which it extends horizontally from the bed out into the room to be used as a seat or the like, and in the other of which it is suspended partially or wholly beneath the bed out of the way. The invention consists of a device capable of carrying out this object, and particularly in devices for drawing the seat to and retaining it in the second above mentioned position. More particularly, the invention consistsin the features and details of construction which will be hereafter more fully set forth in the specification and claim.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar I numerals indicate the same 'parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed frame having applied thereto mechanism illustrating this invention in its preferred form.

I Fig. 2 is an end view partially in section, illustrating all of the parts in the same position shown in Fig. 1. j

Fig. 3 is a changed position view of the parts of Fig. 2, showing the seat SWllIlg to collapsed and concealed position beneath the In the drawings two bed legs 10 and 12, one end rail 14 and two side rails 16 and 18 are shown, this being all that is required to illustrate the application of the device of this invention to an sort of a bed.

In applying the evice of this invention, a seat 20 proper of any suitable length is provided, pivoted at one edge on hinge devices 22 to attaching devices, such for instance as hooks 24, adapted to be applied to one rail, in the particular case here illustrated side rail 18 of the bedstead. Hinged adjacent to the opposite outer edge of the seat board 20 at 26 are one or more (in the particular -case here illustrated two) legs 28 adapted,

when swung to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to support the seat 20 in horizontal or usable position, as shown. In the particular case here illustrated, these legs 28 are connected together by a rod 30 which swings into latching engagement with a clip or catch device 32 on the under side of seat 20 when the parts are folded to the position shown in Fig. 3.

On the underside of the seat 20, usually somewhere near its center is provided an eyelet 34 to which is flexibly connected a rod 36, itself connecting with a spring 38 which is finally connected to a hook -10 applied in an suitable manner to the opposite bed side rail 16. The spring mechanism 36,

I 38 just described is made of such a tension that when the parts are released from the position of Figs. 1 and 2, it will automatically draw the seat and supporting legs 28 to the position shown in Fig. 3 wherein the seat hangs either vertically or, as shown, slightly inside the vertical plane of the side rail 18 to which the seat is attached, so that the seat is out of the way of a person walking in front of the bed and when suit-able bed clothing is applied to the bed, the side edges of the bed clothing can hang down and partially orwholly conceal the seat 20 in the obvious manner.

In the operation of the device, the parts are first assembled in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which case a person may sit or stand, or other "objects may be placed, upon the seat 20 at the side of the bed. When this use of the device is completed, the operator takes hold of the seat 20 and raises it against the action of spring 38 sufficiently so that the legs 28 can be swung up against the rear face of the seat 20, as shown in Fig. 3, whereupon the rod 30 engages the catch device 32 and thus secures the legs in this position. The operator now releases his hold upon the seat 20, with the result that the spring 38 assists gravity in swinging the seat from the position of'F1g. 1 to that of Fig. 3 and holds it in that posltion.

The spring mechanism 38, just described, also serves the useful function, when the parts are in the position of Fig. 1, of exerting sufficient tension to hold the seat and its supporting legs 28 firmly on the floor, thus doingaway with the danger of the seat 20 being accidentally slightly raised and the legs 28 collapsing thereunder at a time when it is not desired to have the seat released.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is In mechanism of the class described, hook devices adapted for application to one rail of a bed, a seat hinged to the hook devices, leg mechanism pivotally connected to the under side of said seat and movable between a position at right angles to said seat and a position parallel thereto, latch mechanism for detachably connecting the leg mechanism to said seat in the latter position, a connection device in approximately the center of the under side of the seat, a spring mechanism attached at one end to said connection device and provided at its other end With a hook adapted for detachable engagement with the opposite bed rail, all of the parts being arranged and disposed substantially as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

- In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of tvvo wit nesses.

IVAN JAKLICH.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, M. S. ROSENZWEIG. 

